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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2021
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Stanley Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Masayoshi Takori, Wako, JP;
Miho Sasaki, Wako, JP;
Yuji Tsuchiya, Wako, JP;
Yuri Mitomo, Tokyo, JP;
Tomohiro Kaneko, Tokyo, JP;
Shota Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Miyoko Nagaike, Tokyo, JP;
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A notification device in a vehicle enables a person outside the vehicle to be notified of a predetermined operating state of the vehicle by the light emission, and includes: a plurality of spot-shaped light sources arranged at intervals to follow an upper edge of a windshield; a reflecting part reflecting light from the light sources to a front; an outer lens transmitting therethrough the light heading toward the front from the reflecting part; and a housing. The outer lens has on at least one of front and rear faces thereof a fine concave-convex face diffusing the light transmitted through the outer lens. Accordingly, the device is visible through an upper part of the windshield from a person outside the vehicle so that visibility is very good, and the light from the relatively small spot-shaped light source can be sufficiently diffused so that visibility can be further enhanced.